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UNITED STATES PATENT orn oi WALTER. H. son, or NEW YORK, N. Y.,ASSIG1\TOR '10 MATHILDA SON, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 23, 1909.

Application filed October 30, 1907. Serial No. 399,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that'I, WALTER H. SoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cars, of

I which the following is a'specification.

- truck 6 carries a superstructure 11 provided The invention relates to improvements in cars having particular reference to a suporting device or truck having means associated therewith for supporting the adjoining or abutting ends of two separate car bodies.

The object of the invention is the providing of a suitable supporting truck carrying means for joining two separate car bodyends together resulting in approximately a single car provided with a double seating capacity of approximately twice the length of an average or standard car, and another object of the invention is the providing of means also carried by said supporting truck to permit the car to turn on approximately any curve formed in the road-bed or track system whereon a car of the character as described may be applicable to run.

In the following is described in connection with the accompanying drawings one emelevation of two cars being joined together by means of a supporting truck; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the car-bodies supporting means, parts being broken away to more clearly illustrate the invention; Fig. 3 is a modified form of\ the car bodies supporting means; and F ig'. 4 is an enlarged plan longitudinal sectional view of Fig. 2, parts being broken away to more clearly illustrate the invention.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

1 and 2 indicate separate car bodies being so joined together as to form a single car provided with an entrance 3 and exits 4. Said car bodies are supported on their respective ends by means of trucks 55 and atatheir central portion thereof by truck 6 provided with wheels 7-7 carried by supporting frame 8. The respective supporting trucks engage rails 9 of road-bed 10. Said at its top portion thereof with a transverse plate .12 suitably fastened to said superstructure 11 by any suitable means such as bolts 13. The frame 8 of said truck 6 has suitably fastened thereto transverse beams 14 which have in turn fastened thereto a plate 15. Transverse plate 12 has fastened thereto metallic beds 16 countersunk in the respective car body floors or foundation beams 17.

Said countersunk beds are joined together at their central portions thereof as at 18 by means of webs 19 and bolts 20. Said countersunk beds 16 have formed at their ce11- tral portions thereof shoulders 21 forming a reception cavity 22 for plate 23 preferably of a friction-proof metal, said plate '21 having formed therein grooves 24 carrying ball bearings '25. Countersunk beds 16 are fastened to the car floors 17 by means of bolts 26.

27 indicates a plate rigidly .fastened at one end thereof as at 28 in car floor 17 by means of bolts 29. The top surface of said plate 27 is flush-with the top surfaces of the car floors 17. Said plate 27 has also formed therein grooves 29 adapted to register with grooves 24 in plate 23 and receive said ball bearings 25. Said plate23 has rigidly cast therewith a pivot 30 provided with alocking head 31 held in place in the bearing 32 formed in countersunk beds 16anda sleeve 33 preferably of friction-proof metal. The surface of car floors. 17 and plate 27, de-

scribed above as being flush with each other,

may have placed thereon auxiliary floors 3i. Countersunk beds 16 and bearing 32, de scribed as being formed on said countersunk beds 16, are supported on transverse plate 12 by flanges 35 fastened to the superstructure of said truck 6 and said transverse plate 12 by means of bolts 36. i

Plates 15, described as being fastened to beams '14, have rigidly fastened thereto by means of bolts semicircumferential tracks 37 provided with heads 38, adapted to engage female guides 39 fastened to the under body structure of the car in any suitable manner such as by bolts. Said semicircumferentia-l tracks 37 and guides 39 provide the means of permitting the respective carbodies to turn on their central pivotal supporting means and at the same time insure an absolute supporting means for the respective car bodies. The under structures of said cars 1 and 2 including walls 40 have fas-- superstructure of the supporting truck, said superstructure 42 having fastened thereto bearing members 43 -fastened together at their central portions thereof in any suitable manner, said bearings 43 receiving sleeve 44 carried by countersunk beds 45 fastened to the car floors 46 byimeans of bolts or screws as shown. Said countersunk bed 45 has formed therein double reception cavities 47 forming at the corners thereof shoulders adapted to receive bearing surfaces 48 on circumferential plate 49 carryingpivot 50 and collar51, said pivot 50 engaging the inner part of sleeve 44 formed on countersunk plate 45, and said collar 51 engaging the flat surface of transverse, web

' 52 formed on superstructure 42 of said supporting truck. It isnot wholly necessary that either of these structures shown in Figs. 2 and 3 have ball bearing surfaces but they may merely have provided therefor a flat viding'a car surface adapted to receive the under surface of thecar body connecting plates. The car body connecting plate as shown" in Fig. 2 is rigidly fastened to the under body structure of car 1, while on the under body structure of car 2 it is loosely mounted and free to turn within countersunk-bed 16 mounted in the floor of said car 2. It is obvious that-the device as shown and described will render two cars approxi-' mately one, the passageway formed between said cars remaining always the same width whether traveling on a straight or curved track system. The joining of two cars in the manner described will further obviate the limited seating capacity of a' single car, at the same time facilitating the taking on and the passage from the-car of passengers. The 40 car is designed and 'constructedgin' such a manner that the entrance to',said car will be at the central portion. thereof and the exits at the extreme ends ofs'aidcar. Tlfe car as' described will be found a great improvement over cars such as areus'ed in city or suburban railway service, at the same time prothat will be applicable to run on all of the present track systems and, furthervaried withoutdepart-ing from the features] i more, permit the railway authorities to pro- 9 vide the public with a' car having twice the seating capacity ofthe ordinary railway car and still retain the same number of car crew." It may benecessary to provide an extra guard or trainman for one of the exits, themotormani controlling the other of said exits, and the conductor'of said car having within his power thegabsolute control of parties enteringa car through thesingle entrance.

Itis obviousthat a deviceof the character Witnesses:

described and the means. comprising thees; sential features thereof may bewidely scribing witnesses.

of the invention and I do not restrict myself -to the specific structure as shown.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. A device of thecharacter described including two separate car bodies, pivotally mounted trucks at each of the ends of said car bodies, a supporting truck at the central engaging ends of said car bodies, a bearing carried thereby, a bearing socket mounted in each of the engaging ends of said car bodies, a pivot adapted td turn within said bearing carried by said truck, a plate formed on said pivot adapted to rest within said bearing sockets, ball bearings mounted in said plate, and a, platform rigidly fastened to one of said car bodies and free toturn on said ball bearings and in said bearing socket on the cluding two separate car bodies, atelescoping vestibule betweensaid car bodies, pivotally mounted trucks at each of the ends of said car bodies, a supporting truck at the central engaging ends of said car bodies, a bearing carried thereby, a bearing socket mounted in each of the en agin ends of said car bodies, a pivot adapted to turn within said bearing carried by said truck, a

.plate formed on said pivot adapted to rest within said bearing sockets, and a platform rigidly fastened to one of said car bodies and free to turn on the other of said car bodies: I

. 3. A device of the character described infor, an auxiliary platform pivotally mounted at one end thereof, means associated with said' auxiliary platform adapted to engage an adjoining car body, a bed plate for said platform, and means formed in said adjoining-car body adapted to permit said auxiliary latform to turn therein.

4. X'device of the character described-including a car body, supporting trucks therecluding a plurality of car bodies, supporting trucks at their engaging ends thereof, supporting trucks at their free ends, bearings mounted on said trucks, auxiliary platforms pivotally mounted on said bearings, supporting means for said auxiliary platforms in each of said car bodies rigidly mounted on one of, said car bodies and free to turn around said pivotal said car bodies.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto s gned my name in the presence of two subpoint in the other of P WALTER sou.

ROBERT W; ASHLEY, M. E. McNUncH. 

